Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music at M.I.T. (Unicorn). Recorded in M.I.T.'s new Kresge Auditorium (TIME, Dec. 26), records in this series are hard to beat for sheer aural excitement. Roger Voisin and the remarkable brasses of the Boston Symphony add a dimension of rare virtuosity to four modern works in The Modern Age of Brass. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Op. 109, 110) make the instrument sound iridescent and almost inhumanly-clear, which is as it should be, and Ernest Levy's performance has the ring of truth...
...UNICORN AND OTHER POEMS (86 pp.)-Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Panfheon...
Cowell: Symphony No. 10 (Vienna Orchestral Society, conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). With five of his eleven symphonies recorded, California-born Henry Cowell, 58, now has more symphonies on disks than any other U.S. composer. No. 10 has a fine, outdoorsy spirit, a readily understandable style, and some feeling of weight. But its six movements are too loosely wrought to be called a symphony in the classical sense...
Sullivan: Music to Shakespeare's Tempest (Vienna Orchestral Society, conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). The composer of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, etc. finished this music in the freshness of his 20th year, and caused his betters to call him a second Mendelssohn. It is easy to see why, although admirers of his operettas will not complain about his later career...
Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 (Vienna Orchestral Society conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). A totally uncharacteristic work by the century's most notorious modernist. This beginner's work contains the material of Tchaikovsky without his melodic gift, the orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov without his logic, the structure of Brahms in all his squareness. A good joke...